Tuesday, 30 January 2018

Hi everyone! It's time for a new challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz, and this week's challenge is music.

The stamp I've used on my card is by Lili of the Valley, and I coloured it with Prismacolor pencils. I still can't decide which pencils I like best.

I created the background with Distress Oxides and water, and added some die cut notes and lots of little stars. The stars were from The Works and came in little glass bottles. I had to glue them all on individually, which was quite fiddly and time consuming!

Monday, 22 January 2018

Good morning. Today's challenge at Make My Monday is fancy folds. This is something I don't do very often because fancy folds are time consuming, usually involving a lot of cutting and folding. As someone who works full time, has children and

also does some voluntary work, my craft time is somewhat limited! That said, it's nice to do something a bit difference once in a while, and this was an interesting challenge. I found a tutorial on Pinterest for a trifold shutter card, and decided to give it a go. I don't think it's turned out too bad for a first attempt!

This card is actually quite easy to make, using the aforementioned measuring and cutting. Once I's done the measuring, cutting and folding I layered some pink card and patterned paper onto the various sections of my card and embellished it with die cut flowers and butterflies. I stamped the sentiment, and finished off my card with a bit of bling. I'm going to try this again, I think, but with the panels of patterned paper laid out differently as I think you can probably create various different looks with this design.

Thursday, 18 January 2018

Good morning! This week we are kicking off a new year of challenges at Cardz 4 Galz with a theme of anything but square. I must admit, I do get into a rut of making lots of square cards, so it was good to do something different.

For this card I used a set of Gorjuss stamps by Santoro. Everything except the background (which is patterned paper) is stamped and coloured with Prismacolor pencils.

Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Hi everyone. I seems likes ages since the last challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz. It's my turn to choose the theme this week, so I've decided to kick off the New Year with a nice easy theme of January Blues. You can make a card on any theme as long as it's in shades of blue.

I created my card using an image by Polkadoodles which I coloured with Prismacolor pencils.

I made the background using Distress Inks and Distress Oxides, and stencilled on the star background. I stamped the happy birthday sentiment and the small notes to the left, and die cut the music running across behind the guitarist.

Saturday, 13 January 2018

This afternoon I am sharing a card I made using this wonderful image from Bloobel Digi Stamps called Inappropriate Cat. You can find him in the Bloobel shop here. When I saw this image I knew I had to make a card with him. I love him so much! I also have a cat that does this, so he made me laugh (well, I kind of have a cat anyway, but that's another story).

I coloured my cat using Prismacolour pencils and layered him onto coordinating grey card and patterned papers. I wanted to keep the focuse on the image, so kept the embellishment simple on this one, just using some Card Candi dots in coordinating colours.

About Me

I'm Sian Cheetham. I'm forty-something and have two children. I'm a Legal Executive and work as a City Council Property Lawyer. I am also a psychology graduate. I would love to give up work and do arts and crafts full time, but unfortunately I need the money! I love anything arty and have created this blog mainly for the purpose of sharing some of my creations. The pictures along the top are some of my encaustic art creations. I dabble in all kinds of things including ATCs, mixed media and altered art, but at the moment I mainly make cards, as there are not enough hours in the day. Thank you for visiting my blog!

A Note Regarding Copyright

Please note that all artwork, creations, photos and text on this blog are copyright Sian Cheetham. I am more than happy for people to take inspiration from my work, but please do not attempt to copy or reproduce it.

I give consent for my photos/artwork for any challenges I enter to be copied and posted on the relevant site, but please do not post any of my photos elsewhere without my consent.